Lovecraft Country: Misha Green’s Historical Melodrama
The tropes of the horror genre — dread, terror, violence, trauma, monsters, and evil forces — constitute nightmarish plots specific…
333 Winter 2020-21
Love Song: On Lana Del Rey’s Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
In “How to Disappear,” a song from her last album, Norman Fucking Rockwell!, Lana Del Rey leads us to expect…
MODEL CITIZEN: Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons. A Modernist Revulsion for Nostalgia
When I was living three driftless years in Berlin, I, like all residents, new or otherwise, would have to register…
Episode IV: Parterre / The Stalls
The systems of governance that Michel Foucault and Deleuze & Guattari taught us to identify as “sovereignty,” “discipline,” and “control”…
Fluid Gesture. Transformations and Transmissions in the Bodies of Michele Rizzo
There is something fluid in dance. It lies neither in the quality of the action — obviously kinetic — nor…
Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel / Managing director at Lafayette Anticipations, Paris
ON VIEW is a printed and an online section in which Flash Art invites prominent figures of the art world…
Giving Image to an Afro–Future with Lauren Halsey
To artist Lauren Halsey, South Central Los Angeles is the most creative place on Earth. Through her funk-inspired sculptures and…
Los Angeles, November 2020
When I was asked to write a personal perspective on a subject of my choosing, I began writing a critical…
Slanted and Re-enchanted: Magic Oneohtrix Point Never
Hypnagogic pop star Daniel Lopatin, thirty-eight, who performs as Oneohtrix Point Never, has just released his self-titled record Magic Oneohtrix…
Against Passive Seeing: Shaun Leonardo
Exploring issues of race and masculinity, Shaun Leonardo’s multimedia practice exposes and redresses the white supremacist power structures that oppress…
Cindy Sherman: Goodbye, Little Yellow Bird; or, A Cage of Gold
“It’s almost an impression of how the character sees her environment, not how we would see it — or if…
Tarek Atoui "Waters' Witness" Fridericianum / Kassel
A metallic clamor pulses across an arrangement of marble blocks, steel beams, cables, and handmade musical instruments, before a rustling…
Harold Mendez "Let us gather in a flourishing way" ICA / Los Angeles
What’s there and what’s not there? Harold Mendez’s presentation at the ICA, Los Angeles, is an exploration into the meaning…
Robert Smithson "Primordial Beginnings" Marian Goodman Gallery / Paris
Between 1957 and 1961, Robert Smithson (1938–1973) exhibited works with a stylistic affinity to Abstract Expressionism, which was then mainstream…
Raphael Hefti “Salutary Failures” Kunsthalle Basel
Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park (1993), a morality tale about the wonders of technology at the end of the twentieth century,…
Queer Correspondence: A Mail-Art Initiative by Cell Project Space, East London. A Conversation with Eliel Jones
